THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
JANUARY 14, 1904.
devil was hard after every one of them
and not ten feet behind."
All of this applies, of course, to the
masses. There are some who ride
about in automobiles, who take things
l Aitfna-ni- tl-air Kilt fVi HIT U Tfl fhf
few. .
This old pop wanted to go . up in
"that region where the desolate wastes
of what was called Harlem existed a
lew years ago. A Third avenue, train
vas advised by a policeman. Mount
ing the long stairs I at last reached
the station. But there jgeeined to be
something wrong. Fo some . min
utes no trains came alotig. A pleasant
faced and "magnetic"1 sort, of man
walked up and down the platform.
Presently he got into conversation
with a boy. He patted the boy on
the head and said: "Here is an hon
est, face. This boy will make the
right kind of a man. see wnai a nose
he has!" That indicates character."
In an instant this pleasant-faced man
was surrounded by a. ?rovd, all of
whom wanted to shake I hands with
him. All at once a rush was made for
the cars which had come along. The
rush was like that of a lot of Texas
steers stampeding upon" some' sudden
fright. However, every one t.oo!c it as
the regular thing. Once on the cars
the pleasant-faced man .began to talk
rather loud. Among other things he
said: "I tell you the whole -lot of
them get hardly enough to keep soul
and body together." The cars halted
for a second or two and a rush was
made for the doors. There; was a
fiercer stampede than when we got
on. One man said: "Let us go with
him," and all who were standing near
the pleasant-faced man rushed off with
him. A man standing near said:
"That is Murphy, the Tammany lead
er." There are miles of canons and cliff
dwellers up where the Harlem wastes
were a few years ago, and the canons
and eliff3 are being extended out far
ther and farther all the time. All. these
people have votes. They are all the
obedient, followers of Doss Ple.lt (or
just at present Boss Odell) or Boss
Murphy. Here is "a race problem"
that threatens good government more
than the race problem of the south.
-T. . .
NOTES FROM GOTHAM.
Down on Wall street I caught a
glimpse of J. Pierpont Morgan. He
has the same brutal, vicious iook uml
he had in 1893 when Cleveland &cld
him those $02,Uul),UUU or Donus ai m:ai
. ly par whn they were the very same
day quoted on Wall street at 118. Mor
gan raked in $9,000,000 on that deal.
He has now the inside track of the
$40,000,000 that is to be paid over on
the Panama deal. The secretary of
the treasury has employed the house
Df Morgan " & Co. to "finance" that
matter. . ,
The restaurants all place finger
howls before their guests. It is strange
how the provincials who live along
the sea coast here cling to things that
came down to them from their bar
barous ancestors. Those old ancest
ors used to gnaw bones (when they
could get them) and eat with their
fingers, and, of course, they wanted
some sort of a rag' to wipe their fin
gers on after each meal, and a bowl
In which to wash them. So they keep
up the old custom.
The meat trust is preparing to take
in all the retail business in all the
New England states. Swift & Co.. in
whose bailiwick that region lies, has
increased their capitalization $12,000,
000 and with that money they intend
to buy out, or drive out, every retail
dealer,' and fix the retail prle for ev
ery Yankee from the sea to the land
of the Cannucks. Up Boston way
there is even now and then a man to
be found who is beginning to doubt
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whether his soul's eternal salvation
actually depends upon always voting
the plutocratic ticket straight.
, Piatt has '.been dethroned in New
York and Odell is the new boss. Ioug
live the boss!
Coming down the state, half way
from Buffalo to New York city, one
new house was seen. The man who
said that this part of the cour'rv
was "finished 7? years ago" was set
absolutely correct: Soc.e fresh pr.int
had been put on another house. Th,Si
two Injurs were tat onl aisciepfaucivs
that were noted concerning the asser
tion thaJ the country is finished..
: . ; 'i :i
All this region vl country is; paral
leled, gridironed and diagonalec1. V,jth
electric and stean railroads, tl:c Je
suit of "seeking investments for coi
tal." ;,M&ny of them Jpiy but el;vhr
or no- dividends ' because there ue
more roads "than tie traffic will be,i;f;
which; is a sort 'of retiiLution .lifted
out to the cliff awelleis. For fl-.'y
years tftG, earnings of j lilt;' people oi
the west have iiccumijlated in V-'cli
street, and the money 'that hag to roe
here has been Invested in that v ay
when, If the banlais'-of the west uu
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...The Old Guard of Populism...
All the necessary formal prelimin
aries for the St. Louis meeting of the
national committees rhave been made,
now that Vice Chairman Edmlsten
has issued the call for his committee.
Chairman Parker's call was made sev
eral weeks ago. In 'order that new
readers of The Independent raay re
ceive the benefit of what has gone
beiore, both " calls re printed this
week. ;:
But the matter does not stop with
the mere formalities completed. Both
calls were simply pro forma, inasmuch
as the Denver meeting settled both
time and place. The duty now to be
performed is to secure a full attend
ance. Mi. Groot in Ohio, Mr. Brown
in Massachusetts, Mi'. Weller in Iowa,
and a number of other are putting in
"their best licks" to have a big meet
ing. The Independent would be glad
tc hear from all who expect to be in
attendance, with a short, crisp letter
for -publication," giving their views
upon the , desirability of nominating
by referendum vote or by convention;
if the latter, stating the best place
to hold the convention; and anything
else which will tend to . arouse the
old-time enthusiasm. The letter be
low tells the, story for tens of thou
sands of former enthusiasts for pop
ulism: Editor -Independent: I received
some blanks from some one, but I
gave them scant attention and decid
ed that to. raise the populist banner
would be out of the question. But
since I have had the pleasure of read
ing The Independent for a few weeks,
and hearing from the old-time lead
ers from afar off, the old love for the
Omaha platform has begun to rekin
dle in my veins.
I have been reading the Appeal to
Reason for two years and trying my
very best to swallow socialism; but
the longer I try the more difficult it
becomes so I just decided It a bad
job, and quit.
I was made just right for the Oma
ha platform and it was made just
right for me. I believe that every
other old populist, who had a true
case, is just like mc nowhere to go
so" when the banner Is raised, you can
count on us fellows at Delhi beating
the other fellows two to one. We
have always done that well; we dhl
it two years ago without a national
party and with a live people's party,
and a gold-bug democrat for president,
we could go it just as well now.
So push tho old Omaha platform to
the front, and when you need my old
dollar, jufct fay no, and she will conic.
Yours in hope of success.
1. A. UALOY.
Delhi, Okla.
CALL FOll NATIONAL COM MITT KB
M KMTl NO.
Lincoln, Neb, Jan. 12, 1M4. To the
Members of the National Committee
of the People' Party of th Pnited
H?uh. urfctlnK: hc rail hwliikf
tr H tnn.it' In mmpllant with a M'h
olutlou jftsf by ild ior.imlttf at
iKuiver, CuK, Juiy a. P.o3, that the
committee Khali bo mllrd tn tnett at
Ht. I in la, Mo., on February 22. 1904,
tor tb . purpo of ftxlriR time ant
lUir of holding the national concn
tion of the rwMpl'a p.uty, hlcta con
vention, whrn ionvrrml, hall place
In nomination membra of Ita own
party an rand Ida tia for pmlitcnt and
Ua prrWtoHt of t!e Vnu KUtf,
had common senpe it woyid have L' ei
retained in the west and invests ii
needed improvements that would have
returned dividends. There are places
in Nebraska where electric roads
ought to be built and they would pay,
but the Wall street crowd that con
trols this capital would rather have
these rocky hills gridironed with use
less tracks than build in the west
where such roads would pay. The
western banker who. backs up .Wall
street is "a natural born fool, and
hasn't sense enough to know it."
There are so .many pill advertise
ments painted on the barns, factories
and fences along the lines of. railroads
in NewvYork that they generally give
all the passengers the diarrhoea from
constantly looking at them. In pass
ing along the streets of the city one
cannot help, coming to the conclusion,
after seeing the enormous number .of
drug stores and saloons, thai the prin
cipal diet of - the .citizens.'; must, be
drugs, .beer and .whisky.
"The oldest inhabitant" . says that
thi3 has been the coldest winter , with
the most snow in New York and -New
England that has . been known since
1S73. T. ... . ..... , . . .
and transact such .other business as
may come before it.
As vice chairman of the national
committee of the people's party, I was
empowered by a resolution passed by
the national committee of the people's
party at Kansas City, in regular ses
sion of the same, to call meetings and
to transact any other business of the
committee that the chairman by vir
tue of his office would be empowered
to perform.
Therefore I do hereby call on all
committeemen of the people's party to
convene at St. Louis, Feb. 22, 1904, for
the- purpose aforestated. And in ad
dition to the committee, would re
spectfully invite all members of the
party who can conveniently attend
such meeting to do so.
It is to be hoped that at this meet
ing a full recognition of the efforts
made at' Denver last July will be in
dorsed by a united peopled party of
the nation. And that the influences
for reform' as found in the people's
party may' be no longer throttled by
misunderstandings, for it the only
party that can ano will uncover wrong
doing and corruption wherever found.
We hope that this meeting will be
well attended and be fruitful of great
good. Reform papers please copy.
J. H. EDMISTEN,
Vice Chairman National Committee
People's Party.
CALL FOR MEETING OF NATIONAL
COMMITTEE.
Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 10, 1903. The
national executive committee of the
people's party of the. United States, in
session at Memphis, Tenn., this 10th
day of December, 1903, begs leave to
congratulate the earnest reform vot
ers of the United States on tho rapid
spread of those great principles of
human government enunciated in the
Omaha platform of 1892, and for which
our organization has steadfastly con
tended, since the beginning.
The political history of the past few
years has only 3erved to strengthen
our position, and to draw the atten
tion of patriotic voters to the prin
ciples involved lu our political creed,
until It is today a generally accepted
theory that government ownership of
monopolies is better than monopoly
ownership of government, althougt
through the manipulation of political
machines by the monopolies now con
trolling the public utilities of the
country, there has been but little leg
islation looking to public ownership.
The political history of tho past
few years has taught several Invalua
ble lessons to those ho would re
form existing abuses, tho most im
portant of which la that fusion or co
operation with either of tho old par
ties la a failure, destined to spread
rou fusion amonn reformers ami to de
stroy our organization. It has akso
taught that a divided reform move
ment can aciompi:h but little. While
in the past homt diffeu nces of opin
ion hate dhidd our ruiika, and tent
couaolatlou to our eneinleu nnd the
dti.potlera of the ptp!e. we r o tu
rn nd aa the future policy of our patty
that reformer of all faction bury
their minor dlfferencim and unite on
the emtentlal principles that will i
Rore to the people the powrr to con
duct the government free from th
uti tattoo of an oligarchy of tho "idle
holder of idle t a pi tat."
To thin rn we hereby call the na
tional central committee of the allied
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people's party to meet at the New St.
James hotel, in St. Louis, Mo., Feb
ruary 22, at 10 o'clock a. m., to fix
a time and place for a national con
vention to nominate candidates lor
president and vice president of tho
Uulted States, and we Invite tho com
mittees of other reform parties to
meet at the name time and place, lok
ins to a practical union of the rcfoim
forces of the country In the npproiu h
Int? national campaign. We especially
Invite the representatives of organ
lied labor, n.i It I the policy of the
people's patty to aurrort the worthy
rf.'ort of or;;.inl.'ed l.l r tn Its fsttux
Kb-e aKulrint organised capital, and bc
Uoiii) that the Html relief of lalxr
rifcts aolely In un Intelligent ami well
directed ballot we urK the co-i ..era
tU u of the abor force in our inuu
hens and at the jkiIU.
We itulome the a Hon of th nu nt
Imtver conference In lMn;i to ie
moon of the pcopU party on the old
Urn, and extend our hand In fraur
tul greeting to our co-lalorrra of the
Kreat northwest who have tn the uct
been tnl!ed by lale promHeii, ouly